For Railway Passenger Guidance.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 9 October 1913, Page 4

For Railway Passenger Guidance.

; — —« I THE LOCAL TIME TABLE. j Sarching through a railway timetable makes most people irritable. The railway table, like the polony, contains many good things, but the public prefer to have the one particular food (whether mental or alimentary) desired on a given occasion, not a liolcli potch of figures concerning the branch line of Toko, the side track at Waggonville, or the cross line to Nevermarch. The particular figures likely to be of benefit to dwellers lietween I'aekakariki and Palmerston .\orih are what readers of The Horowhenua C lironiele need most, and for our readers convenience those figures . are now appended:—

FItOM WELLINGTON. ~ TO WELLINGTON. T1 , a.in. li V / l \, m " a.m. a.in. E. a.in. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. 1 Lot ndon < Ao 9.10 9.25 4.15 Pahn.-istm. 7.1) 12.15 2. 33 r, L 1 ;iokakaviki 6.40 9. < 1.0.30 11. lo 0.2 v . < z. = — : ~ —• ~ 'lokomaru * * * Waikanae * * — 11.50 *ST=:f*l §r E. .Makonn. .. . ... .. .. * i"^° r ° -1 — * = - Shannon 8.0 2.0 3.28 4.1.0 (i.12 Otaki ... < .»0 9.52 11..20 12.20 7.0 ~ ~ - Kuputaroa ** * Manuka u * —**** ~ I =~ C Levin 8.09 2.42 3.54 4.42 0.47 Oliau - * -- **r- — rr~ rf~ - Ohau ** * L < >Vl » 8.50 10.20 11.50 1.5 7.44 j 5. =:= ; 3 Uam.kau * * * * Ivoputaroa **— * * =i. *=- 2 " » ~ Otaki 9.25 :;.25 4215 Li 745 Shannon 9.30 10.48 12.11 1.56 5.14 'IV lion. * * ' ' Makerua * ——* * 5 E' A ~H= = * Waikanae lokomaru *** **• •V" — - - ■?. in •>•> i ->n-n- — o T> 1., . ' .. n._..,-v. Z_ v I 'U Iv.UullIKI LU.->.» 4.:jU :).0 ;).:>< O-OJ) IMmciston (arrive) ... 10.40 11.32 1.3 .2.5S - 2 &=,! %I 5. W'llinumn 12.15 8.35 0.50 7.23 10.45 Stops when requested. 7 o s~ — rz: * Stops wliore requested.

As previously mentioned, there lire several wayside stations at which one or more of the above trains will stop whenever passengers desire to be set down or taken up. Local residents may ascertain which are the trains which eater lor their towns, and mav then work out, from the figures, the time which the train will take to travel from the station immediately preceding. I lie Auckland express reaches Pa]merston from the North, at r-3.-l() p.iiL, and arrives at Thorndon at 4.7 p.m. The Auckland express leaves Thorndon at 12.15 p.m. and reaches Palnierston at o.'i;) p.m. The extra Auckland express commenced Ist October.